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Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. He argues that the United States is distinctive in its level of violence among unrelated adults--friends, acquaintances, and strangers. America was extraordinarily homicidal in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roth, Randolph, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Homicide > United States > History.
TRUE CRIME > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Homicide
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Cuttinge one anothers throates" : homicide in early modern Europe and America
  • "All hanging together" : the decline of homicide in the Colonial Period
  • Family and intimate homicide in the first two centuries
  • "A sense of their rights" : homicide in the age of revolution
  • The emergence of regional differences : homicide in the postrevolutionary period
  • The rise in family and intimate homicide in the nineteenth century
  • "All is confusion, excitement and distrust" : America becomes a homicidal nation
  • The modern pattern is set : homicide from the end of Reconstruction to World War I
  • The problem endures : homicide from World War I to the present
  • Conclusion : can America's homicide problem be solved?

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